[libvirt] Time to drop support for Debian 8 (Jessie)?

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:39:53PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 11:29 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:23:24PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > As mentioned above, we rely on backports for the JRE, so while
> > > we could simply disable the jessie-backport repository that would
> > > leave us with some packages that are installed on the system but
> > > can't be updated, a situation that I would not be particularly
> > > comfortable with.
> > 
> > Ah, so the problem isn't that Jessie has been moved to archive.debian.org,
> > it is that the jessie-backports repo has been moved / EOLd.
> > 
> > I'm fine with dropping Jessie given that we'll be dropping it in a couple
> > of months anyway.
> 
> Alright, I'll cook some patches then :)
> 
> > We should spin up Buster to replace it too
> 
> We've ever introduced support for unreleased operating systems in our
> CI environment[1], and I'm not sure it would be a good idea to start
> now... It seems to me like it would be pretty misleading.

I think the fact that we've not done it in the past is a bug really,
not really a good thing.  Unless we have capacity problems, I don't
see a good reason to avoid it, given that we already run the more
flakey rawhide/sid distros.

> Personally I'd just live with running tests on single Debian release
> until Buster is actually out.
> 
> 
> [1] Fedora Rawhide, Debian sid and FreeBSD -CURRENT don't count since
>     they're unreleased by definition :)

Regards,
Daniel
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